Caren Gussoff won a Gulliver Travel Research Grant for $800 from the Speculative Literature Foundation. Gussoff will use the grant money to travel to western Washington state to research the setting of her novel The King of Seattle. The Grant is given out by the Speculative Literature Foundation to help authors travel to research various aspects of their writing. The organization also announced five honorable mentions this year: Nisi Shawl, Jeremy Smith, Livia Llewellyn, Emily Jiang, and Nadia Kalman.